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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

"Will You Abandon the Cross?" Ja, You Betcha

Apparently there’s a cross at the Mount Soledad Veterans’
Memorial in California that the feds want to rip down. I just heard about it in
this e-mail:

Dear Henry,

California’s 9th Circuit is at it
again.

But this time they’re not forcing
homosexual “marriage” on the people of California.

They’ve now launched an all-out war
on ALL Christians by ordering the Mount Soledad Memorial Cross be ripped up and
torn down.

Henry, I’m going to stand up and
DEFEND the cross.

And I’m counting on you to stand
with me and defend the cross by signing your Mount Soledad Cross Statement of
Support to Chief Justice John Roberts IMMEDIATELY.

As you’ll see, your Statement of
Support -- which cc’s the ENTIRE U.S. Supreme Court -- urges John Roberts to
review the 9th Circuit’s outrageous decision and overrule this blatant attack
on our Christian faith.

But before I give you the link to
sign your Statement of Support, let me explain why this fight is so important
-- and how you and I can stop the Mount Soledad Cross from being torn down.

For nearly 60 years, this 29 foot
cross has stood as the centerpiece of the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in
San Diego.

Surrounded by nearly 3,000 granite
plaques honoring war heroes from every war in American history, this cross
casts a peaceful shadow upon those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our
freedom.

But after 24 years of litigation,
California’s 9th Circuit Court recently ruled the famous Mount Soledad Veterans
Memorial Cross violates the U.S. Constitution -- and ordered the cross be TORN
DOWN.

Henry, this is outrageous to say the
least.

But it’s not surprising.

After all, the God-hating liberals
have been attacking our Christian values for more than four decades now.

And that’s four decades too long.

If you’re as fed up with these
attacks on our faith as I am, please sign your Mount Soledad Cross Statement of
Support right away!

You and I cannot allow this assault
on Christianity to go on any longer.

The anti-religious Left has
attempted to BAN prayer, along with all symbols of Christianity, in public
schools across the nation.

Dozens of Christian entrepreneurs
and business owners are facing lawsuits, government investigations, court
orders, fines, and even jail time for their religious convictions.

They’re persecuting Christians in
the military by FORCING soldiers to announce support for homosexual “marriage”
-- even if it directly contradicts their religious views.

And they’ve banned Military
Chaplains from praying in Jesus’ name and quoting scripture in their classes.

If you and I allow California’s 9th
Circuit to get away with this blatant attack on Christianity, what’s next?

I don’t know about you, but I’m not
willing to sit around and find out.

If the 9th Circuit’s outrageous
decision isn’t reversed, the Left is sure to use it as precedent to STOMP all
public expressions of Christianity out of society for good.

You and I can’t allow that to
happen.

That’s why I’m counting on you to
sign your Mount Soledad Cross Statement of Support right away.

The good news is, you and I have a
real shot at stopping the radical Left from tearing down the Mount Soledad
Cross.

And that’s by urging Chief Justice
John Roberts to take up this case and overturn this outrageous ruling by the
9th Circuit Court.

In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court
refused to take up the case because the lower courts hadn’t reached a final
decision yet.

But Justice Samuel Alito issued a statement
saying the Supreme Court would consider taking up the case should the lower
courts not reach a favorable decision.

So please sign your Mount Soledad
Cross Statement of Support to help encourage Chief Justice John Roberts and the
Supreme Court to review and reverse the 9th Circuit’s ruling.

For more than thirty years as the
president of Public Advocate of the U.S., I’ve led the fight in Washington
against the anti-Family forces’ attacks on Christianity.

As a result, my family’s been
stalked, I’ve been threatened, assaulted and called every manner of vile name.

Even my little children became
targets.

The threats were unspeakable.

But God called me to this place, and
I’ve stood my ground. Not just my ground or my family’s ground -- OUR ground.

But today I’m coming to you, asking
for help like never before.

I’m asking you to put it on the line
for what we believe in. I’m asking you to stand with me for Christ and DEFEND
the cross.

If you’re willing to stand up for
the cross, please sign your Mount Soledad Cross Statement of Support
IMMEDIATELY.

My hope is to generate a FLOOD of
Statements from good folks like you all over the country to help urge Chief
Justice John Roberts to do what’s right and reverse the 9th Circuit’s
outrageous ruling.

But to help generate a massive
outpouring of support for the Mount Soledad Cross, I’m going to have to ramp up
all of Public Advocate’s efforts.

In the next few weeks, my hope is to
contact up to eight million Americans nationwide via mail and email, work the
blogs and the talk radio lines, write op-eds, and run hard-hitting newspaper,
radio, internet and TV ads designed to mobilize millions of Christians to stand
up and defend the cross.

Of course, such a massive grassroots
mobilization program isn’t easy -- nor cheap.

But I’m afraid it’s the only way to
save the Mount Soledad Cross from being torn down.

So please -- in addition to your
signed Statement of Support -- I must ask you to make your most generous
contribution TODAY to help me FIGHT BACK against the Radical Left’s attack on
our Christian faith.

I don’t know what you can afford.
Perhaps you can give $20. Perhaps all you can do is chip in $5 or $10.

Whatever you can do, it will make a
tremendous difference.

I believe you and I do have the
numbers to beat back the left-wing attempt to deal a massive blow to
Christianity by TEARING DOWN the Mount Soledad Cross -- if we can mobilize in
time.

But that depends on you.

So please sign your Statement of
Support and chip in $10 or $20 TODAY.

Please don’t let this email sit in
your inbox. Please don’t tell yourself “I’ll just get to it later.” Please act
at once and DEFEND the cross!

For the Family,

HON. EUGENE DELGAUDIO

President, Public Advocate of the
U.S.

P.S. The war on Christianity has
reached a new fever pitch.

Myresponse:

Dear Mr. Delgaudio,

Actually, yes, I will abandon the cross. The Mount Soledad
Cross is not the cross of Jesus. It’s the cross of an entire nation of
Christians fooled into thinking that their government was interested in their
freedom.

If you think California’s 9th circuit court is evil, and in
the light of the other examples you give of government hostility to Christians
and our message, consider the possibility that our government is no more our
friend than Pilate’s was to Jesus or Herod’s was to the apostles.

Two examples of Christians being deceived en masse should
suffice (1 Tim 5:19).

There was no reason for Christians to fight the Progressive
Democrat Woodrow Wilson’s war in 1917. The Germans had no desire to invade even
England, let alone the US. The Lusitania
was carrying everything the Germans said they would sink ships carrying. That
the passengers didn’t know about the cargo is Wilson’s fault, not Germany’s.
The Christian church should have stood against Wilson’s policy of conscription,
if on no other basis than 2 Cor 6:14.

The second example is Vietnam: this was sold to the US
public by the Progressive Democrat Lyndon Johnson on the lie that our freedoms
were in danger from the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. While it is true
that we have been losing our freedoms ever since the fall of Saigon, we have
been losing them not to the Vietnamese (who, if you will remember, were the
ones who stopped the murderous rampage of Pol Pot), but to those who sent my
neighbors to fight and die there. These are the same people now behind our
current wars whose commander-in-chief is the liberal Democrat Barack Obama.

The evidence is plain to me that the power elite in our
country cares less for US soldiers than sex traffickers care for their slaves
-- that they arguably treat them better is more a testimony to their access to
other people’s money and their knowledge that willing slaves are more profitable than
captives than to any concern for justice. Furthermore, the rise of Naziism, the
captivity of Eastern Europe to the Communists, the ongoing stalemate in Korea,
our current ability to trade with Vietnam, and the flourishing of al-Qaeda (in
Syria and God knows where else with the support of US taxes) tell me that World
War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (never called such by the
Pentagon), and the Global War on Terror have been Satanic plots to distract US
Christians from the Great Commission. Add that to the slaughter of the American
Indians, the imperialist war against the Confederacy (which was itself an evil
empire, but no threat to the North), and the conquests of Hawai’i and the
Philippines, and I have to say that the US military is nothing any serious
Christian should associate himself with.

May the dissociation of the cross of Christ with the Mount
Soledad Veterans Memorial be immediate and final.